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Flying & Environment: EU Leads Way

Contributed by J. R. Ransom

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Flying and the environment -- the EU leads the way Video (10min 2sec). Flying is something we take for granted but all those business trips and holidays are contributing to global warming. This film looks at the new laws being put forward by the EU to cut the amount of CO2 produced by air travel and hears what scientists and those involved in the flying business have to say. "The simplist thing to do and the most intelligent thing to do is to bring aviation into the existing emissions trading system. That puts aviation, quite rightly, on the same footing as other carbon emitting industries. The reasons why we like it is that it's an international solution to an international problem..." "For travelers the measure in likely to have only a modest impact on ticket prices." On the typical European flight we think that the impact on the price of the flight will be very limited - something between two and ten Euros ($2.73 to $13.66). Not more..."

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